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Sensor Products Inc.
(SPI: Madison, NJ) -- Sensor Products Inc. (SPI) is an official distributor of Fuji Prescale, a Mylar tactile pressure-indicating sensor film that instantly reveals surface-pressure magnitude and distribution between contacting or impacting surfaces. When placed between the surfaces, it permanently…
Schoelly Imaging Inc.
(Schoelly Imaging: Worcester, MA) -- Schoelly Imaging Inc., a provider of patented technologies in complex visualization systems for industry and medicine, has upgraded its 4.0 mm Universal Borescope, a modular borescope system whose interchangeable optic objectives allow inspectors to change…
Schoelly Imaging Inc.
(Schoelly Imaging: Worcester, MA) -- Schoelly Imaging Inc., a provider of patented technologies in complex visualization systems for industry and medicine, has upgraded its 4.0 mm Universal Borescope, a modular borescope system whose interchangeable optic objectives allow inspectors to change…
AHA Press
Leaders make things happen, but influential leaders go a step further by making a positive difference in organizations and in the lives of people who both serve and are served by the organization. That’s the premise of a new book from AHA Press, Influential Leadership: Change Your Behavior,…
AHA Press
Leaders make things happen, but influential leaders go a step further by making a positive difference in organizations and in the lives of people who both serve and are served by the organization. That’s the premise of a new book from AHA Press, Influential Leadership: Change Your Behavior,…
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2011 User Comparative Database Report. Based on data from 1,032 U.S. hospitals, the report provides results that hospitals can use as one basis for comparison in their efforts to…
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2011 User Comparative Database Report. Based on data from 1,032 U.S. hospitals, the report provides results that hospitals can use as one basis for comparison in their efforts to…
Measurement Devices Ltd. MDL
(Pointools Ltd.: London) -- Measurement Devices Ltd. (MDL), a leading laser scanner manufacturer, has entered into an agreement with Pointools Ltd. to deliver high-performance point-cloud software with every new 3-D laser scanner. Pointools software is used by project teams to reference and…
Measurement Devices Ltd. MDL
(Pointools Ltd.: London) -- Measurement Devices Ltd. (MDL), a leading laser scanner manufacturer, has entered into an agreement with Pointools Ltd. to deliver high-performance point-cloud software with every new 3-D laser scanner. Pointools software is used by project teams to reference and…
Bruce Hamilton
I was asked about 15 years ago to give a short presentation about poka-yoke to an association of engineering professors from different U.S. universities. I brought with me several devices that employees from my plant had developed, and I began to tell the story: The technique is not…
Bruce Hamilton
I was asked about 15 years ago to give a short presentation about poka-yoke to an association of engineering professors from different U.S. universities. I brought with me several devices that employees from my plant had developed, and I began to tell the story: The technique is not…
Steve Moore
During the late 1990s, Marilyn vos Savant, holder of the Guinness Book of Records’ highest recorded IQ of 228, received an avalanche of hostile responses, many from Ph.D.s in math and statistics, when she correctly solved the controversial “Monty Hall Problem.” This concerns whether a contestant on…
Steve Moore
During the late 1990s, Marilyn vos Savant, holder of the Guinness Book of Records’ highest recorded IQ of 228, received an avalanche of hostile responses, many from Ph.D.s in math and statistics, when she correctly solved the controversial “Monty Hall Problem.” This concerns whether a contestant on…
Denise Robitaille
Every once in a while when I’m conducting training, I have the good fortune to have someone ask a particularly atypical question that gets me thinking and helps me to develop more tools and techniques. This serves to not only augment my own bag of tricks but also increases my capacity to serve my…
Denise Robitaille
Every once in a while when I’m conducting training, I have the good fortune to have someone ask a particularly atypical question that gets me thinking and helps me to develop more tools and techniques. This serves to not only augment my own bag of tricks but also increases my capacity to serve my…
PPT VISION Inc.
(PPT VISION: Bloomington, MN) -- PPT VISION Inc. introduces IMPACT 10.1, the latest release of its machine vision software designed to create the fastest, most flexible machine-vision inspection solutions. IMPACT 10.1 software can be used with any PPT VISION smart camera system, including the M…
PPT VISION Inc.
(PPT VISION: Bloomington, MN) -- PPT VISION Inc. introduces IMPACT 10.1, the latest release of its machine vision software designed to create the fastest, most flexible machine-vision inspection solutions. IMPACT 10.1 software can be used with any PPT VISION smart camera system, including the M…
Alliance Scale Inc.
(Alliance Scale Inc: Canton, MA) -- An analytical balance that is easy to operate and well-suited for a variety of laboratory, industrial, and educational weighing applications has been introduced by Alliance Scale Inc. of Canton, Massachusetts.
The Alliance/OHAUS Pioneer Series analytical…
Bruker Corp.
(Bruker AXS: Tucson, AZ) -- Bruker has created the DektakXT, a new stylus profiler that is the first production system with sustained repeatability of less than five angstroms. This major milestone in stylus-profiler surface metrology performance is the culmination of Dektak’s 40-year legacy of…
Leica Geosystems
(Leica Geosystems: Heerbrugg, Switzerland) -- Leica Geosystems has announced the HDS7000, a new phase-based laser scanner that allows users to take advantage of ultra-high-speed scanning for more as-built survey applications on more sites. The HDS7000 features key enhancements over…
Independent Quality Labs Inc. IQL
(IQL: Ashaway, RI) -- Independent Quality Labs Inc. (IQL) is offering Machine Tool Metrology 101, a seminar that provides in-depth understanding of machine-tool positioning accuracy and its effect on manufacturing-process capability and on-machine measurement. The three-day session…
Duke University
(Duke University: Durham, N.C.) -- Want the inside track on predicting a company’s profitability and stock returns for the next six months? Listen closely to the CEO.
Whether it’s excitement about an unpublished research result in biotech or disappointment over an order cancellation in…
Davis Balestracci
When teaching the I-chart, I’m barely done describing the technique (never mind teaching it) when, as if on cue, someone will ask, “When and how often should I recalculate my limits?” I’m at the point where this triggers an internal “fingernails on the blackboard” reaction. So, I smile and once…
The QA Pharm
By the time a consent decree comes along—which happens when a firm repeatedly violates current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) requirements and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) forces it, through legal channels, to make specific changes—it’s no longer a discussion about responses to…
The QA Pharm
By the time a consent decree comes along—which happens when a firm repeatedly violates current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) requirements and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) forces it, through legal channels, to make specific changes—it’s no longer a discussion about responses to…
